Everyone on Zilvia is arguing "OS X sucks!" "No! Windows sucks!" when in reality they both suck. I've been using Linux for the past two and a half years and haven't had Windows on any of my personal machines. As for laptop quality, stick with decent brands like Lenovo and you won't have any issues.
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Arch Linux (or Arch) is an operating system intended to be lightweight and simple. [1] The design approach of the development team focuses on "simplicity", elegance, code correctness and minimalism. [2] "Simplicity", according to Arch, is defined as "...without unnecessary additions, modifications, or complications.." and is defined from a developer standpoint, rather than a user standpoint. [3]
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FreeBSD has been characterized as "the unknown giant among free operating systems." [2] It is not a clone of UNIX, but works like UNIX, with UNIX-compliant internals and system APIs. [3] FreeBSD is generally regarded as reliable and robust. Among all operating systems which can accurately report uptime remotely, [4] FreeBSD is the free operating system listed most often in Netcraft's list [5] of the 50 web servers with the longest uptime. A long uptime also indicates no crashes have occurred and no kernel updates have been deemed needed, since installing a new kernel requires a reboot, resetting the uptime counter of the system. |
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NetBSD, like its sister project FreeBSD, was originally derived from the 4.3BSD release from the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, via the Networking/2 and 386BSD releases. The project began as a result of frustration within the 386BSD developer community with the pace and direction of the operating system's development. The four founders of the NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles Hannum, felt that a more open development model would be beneficial to the project; one which was centered on portable, clean, correct code. Their aim was to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-quality, BSD-based operating system. |
There is much much much more out there besides OS X/Windows. Look into them someday! Learning them is ultra addictive. I'm actually on the patch right now.
Please don't give me that "UGH BUT I CAN'T PLAY GAME X!!!" crap. By this point in your life you should be focusing on bigger things. I won't lie I'm a gamer, but all of my games are native and I rarely play as it is.
No, you cannot use MS Word et al. but there are tons of substitutions. Yes you can have a fully operational desktop to browse the internet, check e-mail, chat, play (some) games, photoshop (with GIMP), write documents (OpenOffice, Abiword, etc), create spreadsheets (OpenOffice, Gnumeric, etc), run servers, program, watch videos, listen to music and convince people that you are a hacker.